You Said WHAT!!!???
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Among other things, the memorandum reported that Richard Dearlove, the chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, reporting back from talks in Washington, had told other senior British officials that Bush "wanted to remove" Saddam, "through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD," or weapons of mass destruction.
"But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy," Dearlove was reported in the memorandum to have told his colleagues. One of them, Foreign Minister Jack Straw, was reported to have described the case for war as "thin" because "Saddam was not threatening his neighbors and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."
The British government has not disputed the authenticity of the British memorandum, written by Matthew Rycroft, a top foreign policy aide to Blair. A spokesman for Blair has said that the memorandum does not add significantly to previous accounts of decision-making before the war.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters on Tuesday that the White House saw "no need" to respond to the Democratic letter. Current and former Bush administration officials have sought to minimize the significance of the memorandum, saying it is based on circumstantial observations.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/225072_memo20.html
---Un. Freaking. Believable.---
Among other things, the memorandum reported that Richard Dearlove, the chief of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, reporting back from talks in Washington, had told other senior British officials that Bush "wanted to remove" Saddam, "through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD," or weapons of mass destruction.
"But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy," Dearlove was reported in the memorandum to have told his colleagues. One of them, Foreign Minister Jack Straw, was reported to have described the case for war as "thin" because "Saddam was not threatening his neighbors and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."
The British government has not disputed the authenticity of the British memorandum, written by Matthew Rycroft, a top foreign policy aide to Blair. A spokesman for Blair has said that the memorandum does not add significantly to previous accounts of decision-making before the war.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters on Tuesday that the White House saw "no need" to respond to the Democratic letter. Current and former Bush administration officials have sought to minimize the significance of the memorandum, saying it is based on circumstantial observations.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/225072_memo20.html
---Un. Freaking. Believable.---
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